Italy's Meloni says Trump 'totally invented' story that she begged him for photo reut.rs/4vXtRLV

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.

There we have it - hungry kids are the result

As many suspected, taxpayers will end up footing part of the bill for the new White House ballroom after all. According to a new report from The Washington Post, the estimated cost of the project has now climbed to $600 million, with roughly half expected to come from taxpayer dollars.

Wondering why Americans aren’t feeling great about their futures, the economy, or the American dream? Read Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social I knew #privateequity was bad but daammmnnn #Booksky

Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farm

The United States government has intentionally killed at least 205 people outside any lawful circumstances—and the operation is still ongoing. That is what the campaign against the "drug boats" is.

If every billionaire is a policy failure, a trillionaire is 1000 policy failures in a trenchcoat.

Makes sense when you realize inflation is a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.

Un fois plus pour les gens à l’arriére.

One of the great errors in fiction from past decades is that we always portrayed tech bro CEOs as geniuses when the truth is, most are dipshit bigots who got lucky or bankrolled by daddy. On their own merit, they fail every time.

Yep as I watch the prices for my basics like cereal, milk, vitamins & dog food all go up.

What connects the $3.9M Palantir–USDA contract & the White House’s new mandatory app? 👉 The normalization of a govt market for software that turns office attendance into an enforcement system. 👉 The same federal blind spot: Washington adopts tools before Congress sets the rules around their use.

10 hot romance books by Black authors to heat up your summer thegrio.com/2026/06/09/1...

Important dates (advance voting, voter registration), information about the candidates, Searchlight's coverage of the race, and more: Check out our Voter Guide for the July 28 South Dakota Republican governor nomination runoff election.

Read the sentence in The Bulwark’s post. The fact that is a true statement should give us pause.

This is what they meant by "free speech"

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Happy Primary Day to all who celebrate!!

I’ll take it - happy to see this because I do love Martina McBride apple.news/AbU98D319Q0O...

This is worth a read if you/your biz/your org depend on being searchable (and found!) on the internet. If you've done a search lately, you've noticed this change. #AI

Called it

A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.

SB 245 picks winners & losers for #propertytax relief. There is no cap on the amount of relief a homeowner can get - so wealthy folks with high-end homes will benefit more than anyone else. Visit www.sd4fairtaxes.org to learn more. #SouthDakota #fairtaxes #taxes

Another long day at the Craven Canyon #uranium mining hearing in Hot Springs. The state Board of Minerals is struggling to comply with state law in meeting Lakota interpretive services. #waterislife

Sure sure

Deep sigh….

Yeah as it should. That cut was always a shit idea

Well I didn’t need this on my Friday evening

This is uncomfortable but true. Great long read from @harpers.bsky.social This is perfectly exemplified by SB 245 which the #sdleg passed this year. Renters paying #salestax to give #propertytax relief to homeowners harpers.org/archive/2026...

Links: fortune.com/2026/05/12/l... calmatters.org/economy/2026... www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

The confusion continues! I think this is what happens when the emergency clause is used when there is not, in fact, an emergency. If this had been allowed to go into effect on July 1 as normal, this would likely be smoother.

Hears a whistling sound….oh it’s just billions of dollars being sucked out of our personal & public bank accounts

Finally a usage of Future Funds that I can back. But it’s only a fraction of funds for other (and less impactful) ventures. He gave $4 million for the gunsmith program (that’s 8x the amount for paraprofessionals) & $6 million for the (still very obscure) Defense Industry Institute.

Shady 👀

Today, Trump signs exec order to lower beef prices, largely through more imports. JBS, Marfrig & beef companies in Brazil wanted reduced US tariffs & apparently they got it. Without Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) consumers won't know where their beef came from www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Seen 👀 in Sturgis this weekend - all of the stations hit this mark. Would love to see the SD congressional delegation DO something #gasprices #sodak #painatthepump

South Dakotans who stood against #bigtech during the #sdleg session should feed pretty good about their stance in light of this news. Opposing #taxbreaks for #datacenters that take jobs is the right thing to do www.keloland.com/news/nationa...

Well good to know which distillery to avoid forever

This is all you need to know about Kash Patel. Full stop.

In case was curious if #gasprices have dropped. No.

This is an attack on the free press. We’re flirting with a police state here, folks.

Thread 🧵1/2 📆May means it's time to register to vote! May 18th is the deadline to vote in the June 2nd primary election. Plus city & school elections are also this day - your vote really matters! #sodak #sodakvoting #juneprimaryelection

Sooo not so much rules as "guidelines" that everyone just ignores #southdakota

"It's not a tax cut, it is a wealth transfer" DRA board member Ned Horsted www.kotatv.com/2026/05/03/o... @kotatv.com #propertytaxes #salestax #SouthDakota #unfairtaxes

No words. Another step in making women second class citizens in red states.

Terrible news. Hits hard when you live in a red state.

This is devastating news www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/p...

Ummmm 🤨